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From: "Bryan Østergaard" <kloeri@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] amd64 and ia64 keywords
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:12:50
Message-Id: 20061021080807.GB4865@woodpecker.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] amd64 and ia64 keywords by Alin Nastac
1 On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 11:04:03AM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote:
2 > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't amd64 and ia64 architectures
3 > nearly the same? Beside 3dnow/sse instruction sets of course.
4 > If so, shouldn't we have the same kewords ("amd64 ia64", "~amd64 ~ia64"
5 > or none) on every package that don't use 3dnow/sse instructions?
6 >
7 > I only ask this because I think the arch teams' could be better spent
8 > than double-checking the packages.
9 >
10 No, they are wildly different architectures.
11
12 Regards,
13 Bryan Østergaard
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